The intense white blob on the left is the vent for the central heating not an apparition. We had an extension built four years ago. You can clearly see where it starts above the front door, the new – better insulated bit is pink and the older walls show blue On the gable, the warmer bit […]
74/365 Just because I like it
I bought this bottle of olive oil in Booths – probably my favourite supermarket. I like it so much I’m considering a one-woman campaign to get them to open a shop north of the border. One would do so well in, say, Renfrewshire. Anyhow, Booths (the one in Penrith, near where mum is) had beautiful […]
73/365 trained to the whistle
This is the most likely view of at least two thirds of the fruit of my loins at any given moment. Goodness knows what they’re listening to… or perhaps they have cold ears. Anyhow, it’s a state of affairs that led me to take drastic action. I became increasingly frustrated by the fact that when I […]
72/365 Sunrise towards Glasgow
71/365 accents on women in business
I was at a Scottish Women in Business networking lunch today. That’s chairman Morag Malloy of Fission Creative introducing the book swap event at Sisters. The very creative Alison Finlay told me about seminars she was doing with participants from all over the world. We fell to talking about what kind of international accent, phraseology […]
Introducing Baralech: A mother’s tale
70/365 Central Station window
Dashing to get the train home this afternoon. The sun was streaming in the windows by platform 15 at Glasgow Central. Of course, by the time I got my phone out and ready it had stopped. I could go on about how this snap represents the very nature of Glasgow – gracious architecture with a flipping […]